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The Last Race

“A group of perfect strangers” was how The Edinburgh Evening News described this collaborative ‘internet’ band when they released their debut single ‘The Last Race’ in January 2019 and they have never met collectively but are still producing music together.

Out of View was started in 2016 by songwriter/drummer Dougie Bonner (former drummer with Edinburgh band ‘The Guilty Party’) from Edinburgh now living in France. He had a song idea ‘The Last Race’ and contacted his old friend, Guitarist Ian Whitehall (original guitarist with The Soup Dragons, Glasgow) living in Edinburgh and the idea and song progressed…via email.

When Dougie returned briefly to Scotland he found online and made contact with Bass player Niyi Oludipe from Nigeria (living in Edinburgh), Vocalist Tara-Lynn Sharrock from Melbourne, Australia (X-Factor Australia 2011 Top 6 Under 24 Girls) and Ross Weir a Highland Piper from Aviemore in the Highlands of Scotland and together they collaborated and released their first single. 

As this was (and still is) a remote, invisible, internet band, Dougie decided to call it 'Out of View’…as it seemed apt.

After their debut single release Dougie immediately started work on the follow up ‘See me Now’ and again called on his new ‘band mates’ to collaborate. He had also written a part for Cello in the new song so the search was on and through some musician contacts was introduced to and met Jules Horne, a Cello player from the Scottish Borders.

‘See Me Now’ was released in 2020 and Dougie continued writing and during the next few years new musicians joined ‘The Band’ replacing Niyi and Jules who left to pursue other projects.

Ian Olliver (original member and Bassist of PJ Harvey Band) replaced Niyi on Bass Guitar and 2 more songs ‘Alive’ and ‘Falling’ were produced with this lineup 

Dougie reworked ‘The Last Race’ and also wrote the Celtic Vibe Instrumental track ‘The Greenhill Dance Club’ and was joined by multi-string instrumentalist Patrick Heinisch who plays Violin, Nyckleharpa & replacing Jules on Cello.

The sound has changed a little since the beginning but still has a Celtic Fusion (Worldbeat) energy incorporating traditional and contemporary instruments.

All instruments were recorded by each band member independently and sent to Dougie for composing and producing the songs which are released independently on BIG PAW RECORDS.